બધી કહેવતોAll of them, by first letter.

ગાવું અને લોટ ફાકવો બન્ને સાથે ન થાય

gāvuṁ anē lōṭa phākavō bannē sāthē na thāya

Pick one — the two will not be done together.

હા જી હા કરવું

hā jī hā karavuṁ

Agreeing with everything and meaning none of it.

હાડહાડ થવું

hāḍahāḍa thavuṁ

To be worn right down by it.

હાડકાં ખોખરાં કરવા/રંગી નાખવાં

hāḍakāṁ khōkharāṁ karavā/raṁgī nākhavāṁ

To beat a person thoroughly.

હૈયા ઉકલત

haiyā ukalata

Sense that came from living, not from being taught.

હૈયે છે પણ હોઠે નથી

haiyē chē paṇa hōṭhē nathī

He knows it perfectly well and cannot get it said.

હૈયે રામ વસવા

haiyē rāma vasavā

For a person to be settled at last from the inside.

હૈયે તેવું હોઠે

haiyē tēvuṁ hōṭhē

Nothing held back — for better and for worse.

હૈયું બાળવું તેના કરતા હાથ બાળવા સારા

haiyuṁ bāḷavuṁ tēnā karatā hātha bāḷavā sārā

Do the work yourself rather than sit eating yourself up over it.

હાજાં ગગડી જવા

hājāṁ gagaḍī javā

To lose your nerve completely.

હાકલા-પડકારા કરવા

hākalā-paḍakārā karavā

A great deal of noise and no move towards anybody.

હળદરના ગાંઠીયે ગાંધી ન થવાય

haḷadaranā gāṁṭhīyē gāṁdhī na thavāya

A scrap of stock and no trade behind it is not a business.

હળાહળ કળજુગ

haḷāhaḷa kaḷajuga

Said when the world seems to have given up entirely.

હલકું નામ હવાલદારનું

halakuṁ nāma havāladāranuṁ

The one who carries out the order is the one who gets remembered for it.

હરામના હાડકાં

harāmanā hāḍakāṁ

Said of a person constitutionally unwilling to do any work.

હાર્યો જુગારી બમણું રમે

hāryō jugārī bamaṇuṁ ramē

Losing is precisely when people bet larger.

હસવામાંથી ખસવું થવું

hasavāmāṁthī khasavuṁ thavuṁ

The joke that goes one step too far and ends the evening.

હસે તેનું ઘર વસે

hasē tēnuṁ ghara vasē

Good humour keeps a household together better than anything else.

હાથ અજમાવવો/સાફ કરવો

hātha ajamāvavō/sāpha karavō

To have a go at it — and, said the other way, to help yourself while you are there.

હાથ ભીડમાં હોવો

hātha bhīḍamāṁ hōvō

To be short of money just now.

હાથ દેખાડવો

hātha dēkhāḍavō

To hold out the palm to be read — and, otherwise, to let people see what you were holding.

હાથ ધોઈ નાખવા

hātha dhōī nākhavā

To give the thing up as lost and walk away.

હાથ કંકણને આરસીની જરૂર ન હોય.

hātha kaṁkaṇanē ārasīnī jarūra na hōya.

What is plain does not need demonstrating.

હાથ ઊંચા કરી દેવા

hātha ūṁcā karī dēvā

To declare you can do nothing more about it.

હાથમાં આવ્યું તે હથિયાર

hāthamāṁ āvyuṁ tē hathiyāra

In a corner, a person uses what is there.

હાથના કર્યા હૈયે વાગ્યા

hāthanā karyā haiyē vāgyā

The thing you brought on yourself is the one that hurts.

હાથનો ચોખ્ખો

hāthanō cōkhkhō

Money passes through him and none of it sticks.

હાથતાળી આપવી

hāthatāḷī āpavī

To slip away just as they were closing in.

હાથે તે સાથે

hāthē tē sāthē

Only what you actually gave away is yours at the end.

હાથી ચાલ્યા જાય અને પૂંછ્ડું રહી જાય

hāthī cālyā jāya anē pūṁchḍuṁ rahī jāya

The whole enormous business went smoothly and the last small thing has held it up.

હાથી ઘોડાનો ફરક

hāthī ghōḍānō pharaka

Not a matter of degree — they are different things.

" હાથી જીવે તો લાખનો, મરે તો સવા લાખનો"

" hāthī jīvē tō lākhanō, marē tō savā lākhanō"

Some things hold their value whatever becomes of them.

હાથીના દાંત દેખાડવાના જુદા અને ચાવવાના જુદા

hāthīnā dāṁta dēkhāḍavānā judā anē cāvavānā judā

What is put on display and what is actually used are two different sets.

હાથીની અંબાડીએ ચડી છાણાં ન વિણાય

hāthīnī aṁbāḍīē caḍī chāṇāṁ na viṇāya

Do not use the grand thing for the mean errand.

હાથીની પાછળ કૂતરા ભસે

hāthīnī pāchaḷa kūtarā bhasē

It walks on and the barking makes no difference to anything.

હવનમાં હાડકાં હોમવા

havanamāṁ hāḍakāṁ hōmavā

To ruin a solemn occasion on purpose.

હવેલી લેતા ગુજરાત ખોઈ

havēlī lētā gujarāta khōī

Reached for the addition and lost the whole estate.

હિંમતે મર્દા તો મદદે ખુદા

hiṁmatē mardā tō madadē khudā

Make the move and the rest of it arrives.

હીરાની પરીક્ષા ઝવેરી જ કરી જાણે

hīrānī parīkṣā jhavērī ja karī jāṇē

It takes one who knows the trade to tell what a thing is worth.

હીરો ઘોઘે જઈ આવ્યો અને ડેલે હાથ દઈ આવ્યો

hīrō ghōghē jaī āvyō anē ḍēlē hātha daī āvyō

The whole journey made and the actual point of it not attempted.

હોળીનું નાળિયેર

hōḷīnuṁ nāḷiyēra

The one picked out to be thrown in so that everybody else's festival goes well.

હોઠ બહાર જાય એ કોટ બહાર જાય

hōṭha bahāra jāya ē kōṭa bahāra jāya

Say it once and it has left your keeping for good.

હોઠ સાજા તો ઉત્તર ઝાઝા

hōṭha sājā tō uttara jhājhā

As long as a person can still talk, they will have plenty to say.

હોઠ સાઝાં તો ઉત્તર ઝાઝાં

hōṭha sājhāṁ tō uttara jhājhāṁ

As long as a person can still talk, they will have plenty to say.

હું મરું પણ તને રાંડ કરું

huṁ maruṁ paṇa tanē rāṁḍa karuṁ

Spite carried to the point of self-destruction.

હું ને મારો ઉનીયો કાકાનો ચુનીયો.

huṁ nē mārō unīyō kākānō cunīyō.

The little circle a person counts and everybody else outside it.

હું પહોળી ને શેરી સાંકડી

huṁ pahōḷī nē śērī sāṁkaḍī

Everything in the way, and none of it her own doing.

" હું રાણી, તું રાણી તો કોણ ભરે પાણી ?"

" huṁ rāṇī, tuṁ rāṇī tō kōṇa bharē pāṇī ?"

Everybody too grand for the work, and the work still there.

હુતો ને હુતી બે જણ

hutō nē hutī bē jaṇa

A household of two and nobody else in it.